We follow up on not using Facebook for logins and Apple and AWS request the Bloomberg retract the Chinese Spy Chip story. Apple is working on a patch for the #Beautygate — where the iPhone XS is over beautifying portrait photos. We revisit Swift & Objective-C usage. The October 30th event will apparently introduce 2 new iPad Pros, iPad Mini, two iMacs and possibly a new MacBook. IBM open sources their Mac@IBM configuration. Tim Cook calls for strong US Privacy legislation. We touch on the upcoming 5G mobile service. Picks: Xcode 10 patches to Advanced Apple Debugging & Reverse Engineering, Hawkeye Access.

This week the podcast is extended by Greg Heo and Tammy Coron, just before RWDevCon 2016. Tammy tells why she likes Fantastical 2 and her Gumdrop case for her iPad Pro. We chat about preparing for RWDevcon 2016. We discuss switching from indie and freelance development to joining corporations. We speculate on the rumored 9.5 inch iPad Pro. We geek out on biological motors and DRAM Challenges. Picks: OS X Playgrounds, League of Legends, Jamstik +

We start off covering Tim Cook’s appearance on ABC News. We follow up on the FBI’s actions reseting the shooter’s password and the populace understanding of the ramifications. We also follow up on the Cambrian explosion of Swift web servers and the Quartz news app. We discuss Github’s drag and drop, devmate and Make Money Outside the App Store. We explore the two finger long press to select text. Picks: iOS App Extensions, Tiny Game of Pong, Test Your Swift.

We dive right in on a discussion on wages and salaries for iOS developers. Next we celebrate Adobe’s decision to end Flash and introduce Animate CC. We discuss Dan Frommer’s post on the stalled Apple Watch platform. Bohemian Coding’s decision to remove Sketch from the Mac App Store is also discussed. We corner guest host Greg Heo on whether Swift has gained it’s own development idioms and the pending Swift going open source. Picks: Realm, Asynchronous Values in Swift, UITouch.Stylus

About the Podcast

MTJC podcast is a show about mobile development. Each week, Jaime Lopez, Mark Rubin (sometimes Greg Heo, Tammy Coron, and Aaron Vegh) and myself, Tim Mitra, will convene from across the continent to discuss iOS and Mac development.